Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6375.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: Installation from locally stored packages Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:38:15 -0000 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: To: , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Nov 2003 14:38:16.0409 (UTC) FILETIME=[ED94E490:01C3B42A] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id hAQEcSoA006021 Oooops ! I think the OP needed to download the whole of Cygwin onto his LINUX machine and then burn the CD ! If so, then the problem is that downloading off the Cygwin site is managed by the 'setup.exe' program. It might be difficult running this under Linux, though I suppose it could be tried with WINE or something. I think what is needed here is something like an FTP download of the Cygwin files - problem is that facility doesn't seem to be available on the Cygwin site. I guess someone in the Cygwin group (one of us ?) could 'open-up' a machine connected to the 'net with all the Cygwin files in a directory and running an FTP server. Or even make the CD up and send it. Any other possibilities ? > -----Original Message----- > From: fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net [mailto:fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net] > Sent: 26 November 2003 14:25 > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Cc: fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net > Subject: Re: Installation from locally stored packages > > I think this works. I assume you already have Cygwin running > on the desktop > networked machine. > > 1. On the desktop, rename your directory Cygwin to something else. > 2. Run http://cygwin.com/setup.exe. > 3. Choose Download (NOT repeat NOT Install). Choose to > download to your > Desktop or somewhere convenient. > 4. Click the selector from Default to Install so that you get > everything. > > As you are making a CD for personal use, you needn't worry > about selecting > any of the .src files.(Actually, I've found that Cygwin is > now so huge, that > even deleting [prev] and [test], it turns out that all of > [curr] + relevant > .src now no longer fits on a single CD. This is quite recent > I think: a > month or so ago it all did (just).) > > That's it. Don't forget to rename the directory Cygwin back > again after the > download is complete. > > 5. Copy all of setup.exe + setup.ini + \release\ to h:\Cyg0\ > where h: is > your CD drive and Cyg0 is some named directory to hold > everything. (It used > to be the case and may still be the case that copying > setup.exe + setup.ini > + \release\ simply to h:\ rather than a directory under h:\ > led to a hang > during any subsequent attempted installation. A Windows > thing, not a Cygwin > thing.) > > 6. Put the CD in your laptop and run h:\Cyg0\setup.exe. > > Repeat: I think this works. It's ages since I did it. > > Fergus > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/